Reconstructing the single-cell-level behavior of a toggle switch from population-level measurements

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1067-1072

  Tozaki, Hirokazu ^a,b   Kobayashi, Tetsuya J ^c,d   Okano, Hiroyuki ^b   Yamamoto, Ryo ^a   Aihara, Kazuyuki ^a   Kimura, Hidenori ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c The University of Tokyo ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Growth difference; Intracellular switch; Nonlinear master equation; Stochastic flipping

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROWTH RATE; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 40949111376     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.02.057     Document Type: Article

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